dasmith85 | # 1 | 2008-06-24, 20:51 | Report

I'm considering purchasing a Nokia N800 off of ebay and two 16gb sdhc cards and loading them up with mp3's. I am curious to how Kagu and/or Canola2 will handle that much music. Will I be disappointed in the performance?

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Darryl

gazza_d | # 2 | 2008-06-24, 21:07 | Report

I prefer canola. I also have 2 16gb cards, and forme at least, canola seems quickest and best suited to handling lots of music.

maillaxa | # 3 | 2008-06-24, 21:37 | Report

Please consider using mpd+mmpc which is the best combination I found to handle lots of music (here 8Go).

iceman600 | # 4 | 2008-06-24, 22:02 | Report

try both and see wat suits you.... its all depends on what you like. and i hve here n800... if you want i can sell it to you.

dasmith85 | # 5 | 2008-06-25, 02:38 | Report

Thanks for the replies. I will try the different options and see which works best for me.

I currently have a 770 and may try on there for, just to get a feel.

Iceman, how much would you sell your N800 for?

-Darryl

smman | # 6 | 2008-06-25, 10:25 | Report

Hi!
You may try MediaBox from Martin Grimme.
This is exellent soft for me...

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bunanson | # 7 | 2008-06-26, 04:52 | Report

You like equalizer? That leaves you with ONLY xmms, or players from KDE358. equalizer under KDE358 is not as good as equalizer from xmms.

bun

maillaxa | # 8 | 2008-06-26, 05:53 | Report

XMMS on the tablet is a horrid thing to use. Not suited for tablet at all IMO.

dasmith85 | # 9 | 2008-06-26, 15:03 | Report

I was able to load both Kagu and Canola on my Nokia 770 and play around with them. I only have about 50 songs on there, so it is a far cry from the thousands I plan on putting on the Nokia N800 with 32gb SDHC cards.

I had problems with Kagu recognizing my albums. Very likely an issue with what version of the ID3 tags I setup, but I'm not sure. Canola seemed to work much better. It recognized the albums and artists, etc...

My big concern is how this will perform when I do have 20-30 gb of mp3's loaded. Will it be sluggish? Do I only have to perform the 'scan' when I add new files? things like that.

thanks again for everyones input.

-Darryl

ericdkirk | # 10 | 2008-06-26, 15:08 | Report

I find canola does a kind of lite rescan on load (bout 30-60s), so if you are not closing canola it does not matter, I have 20Gb+ music.
Now it will take all day to download the cover art for that much music.